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Schools in Chennai, the state capital, and other coastal towns have been closed with the weather office warning of intermittent heavy rains this weekend.

Apart from Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kancheepuram, Cuddalore, Nagapattinam, Tirunelveli and Thanjavur districts were also lashed by rains. He had a message for the Chennai administrative authorities too."With the rains likely to continue, so much water logging already is not a great sign of preparedness".

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As a precautionary measure, the power supply in the city was cut Thursday.

A view of a flooded locality following heavy rains due to the onset of North East Monsoon in Chennai on Tuesday.

The Marina Beach area recorded a whopping 30 cm of precipitation.Parts of the beach were submerged under water, as people tried to make their way around. Water levels in temple tanks started rising after monsoon struck Chennai and its neighbouring districts.

The heavy deluge has brought back memories of the deadly December 2015 deluge in Chennai, where 500 people died.

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